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TO AN ELF GIRL

a little freewheeling
with gears disengaged
downhill and up a tree
to see the leaves turning
gold in my book of twilights

no need whatsoever
to understand this
overture of secret
rapture in the mind:
it's just a little brittle tune
i hum to happiness tonight
for having lived today
freely loving lightly
gladly come what may

and here's another color pin-up
for the private scrapbook of your
penny-each? you're crazy! thoughts
(i mean the funny ones that can't be bought)
regarding which i wish to say:

remember Keats who wrote about
the Grecian urn (an ode to beauty
crystallized in ancient clay) -
and a moment's ecstasy, eternity -
perfect forever, almost but not quite yet
our Romeo with his Juliet?

well, here i am, eternally
ready for the plunge
headfirst into the deepening paradise pool
of delicious, dolorous, deathless joy
and everlasting freshness
that i shall always find
in you (my nameless, shameless, blameless love)

MOTH BALLS is Antares' first (and positively his last) "posthumous collection" of poems - culled from more than 25 years of inspired jottings in private journals, on scraps of paper, and the backs of envelopes.

What you're reading is a uniquely preposterous event in literary history.

QUOTES

"According to the Mayan tradition, our Sun is actually part of the Pleiades, and orbits in concert with the other stars of this constellation. The joint rotation of all the stars in the Pleiades, including our Sun, is but a minor motion within the huge, 400-billion-star spiral of our local galaxy, the Milky Way." ~ Steven McFadden, Profiles in Wisdom: Native Elders Speak about the Earth

"It is time to work into the deepest part of our beings to regain the information we have impressed there - in the spiral of our DNA. Only in this way will millenial information rise into our conscious awareness, reminding us of an ancient time when knowledge was unified and there was no separation between science and religion. High knowledge is coming. We must prepare to receive it."~ Hunbatz Men, Mayan Daykeeper & author of Los Calendarios Astronomicos y Hunab K'u

SPECIAL THANKS

I'm deeply grateful to:

Rehman Rashid - for insisting time and again that I share my vagrant musings with the world (please don't hold it against him), and for proving spectacularly that self-publishing isn't merely "acceptable"... sometimes it's the only way, and it can be fun and rewarding.

Rafique Rashid - for lighting a series of fires under my hut to get me going on this project, and for the brilliant theme music (if you missed it at the Moth Balls launch... wait for the video!)

Dai Moon Loy and Lee Hong Wah - my parents - for the occasional cash transfusions and their tacit support (they've never actually applauded my "lifestyle" but they have always been decent enough to maintain a dignified silence about it).

Chuah Guat Eng - for late night access to her wordprocessing facilities.

Mariana Musa - for graciously and heroically turning my low-tech mess into into a high-tech book with her amazing PageMaker skills.

Mary Maguire - for daredevilishly and generously underwriting the production of Moth Balls, thereby midwifing its entry into the third dimension, and for all-round logistical, emotional and paleontological support.

Lena Ang, Guna, Dato' Lat, Amir Yussof,Hullabaloo, John Hagedorn, Peter Hassan & Markiza, Vera Verbiage, Anand Somasundram and Many Others (left out of this list because the book was already at the printer's) who helped create a festive and welcoming atmosphere for the birth of Moth Balls.

And, of course, I wish to acknowledge my debt to the tree that sacrificed its substance to the realization of this book.

TECHNICAL TRIVIA

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